Health pact, Anaao: nothing good for doctors and health managers

All contact was voluntarily avoided with the doctors and health professionals who represent that reality and on whose increasingly onerous commitment the achievement of objectives and compliance with programs depends. The Lea and tickets are postponed to a future date, with all due respect to the right to health and the pockets of citizens

Nothing new and nothing good for doctors, health managers and NHS health personnel. So Anaao Assomed comments with a communicated the agreement on the health pact signed by the government and the regions on Thursday afternoon. The health pact, the note continues, confirms doubts and perplexities about the ability to reverse the course of a recessionary policy. Even the certainty of the economic resources allocated proves to be ephemeral, confirmed only for 2014, fixed (but not certain) for 2015 and 2016 and remain directly dependent on the state of public finance. A pact concluded between the Mef, the Ministry of Health and the Regions, which voluntarily avoided any contact with the doctors and health professionals who represent that reality and whose increasingly onerous commitment depends on the achievement of the objectives and compliance with the programs. The pact, underlines Anaao, does not differ from the health policy pursued up to now, based on the cutting of beds, on the implementation of their occupancy rate, on the definition of new criteria for hospitalization which are very questionable in the proof of the facts, which continues to ignore the destabilizing effects that follow, both clinical (increased clinical risk, lowering of quality) and social (exclusion from treatment of the weakest sections of the population, increase in waiting times, overcrowding of the DEA). And while the will to recalibrate the strengths of the hospital/territory system is declared, in fact the range of action of hospitals is being reduced, to which, moreover, greater functions are being asked and more extensive responsibilities are attributed. The reorganization plan of territorial assistance, continues the note from the trade union association, which for the moment is enriched with acronyms (Uccp, Aft), remains a program of good intentions on paper, impossible to implement for the majority of the Regions given the serious delays accumulated in terms of the organization of services. A pact that underpins new energies and a relaunch of the employment policy and which instead, with strictly unchanged spending, rests on the shoulders of doctors and healthcare professionals who are increasingly tired of waiting for the turnover block to be lifted, for the a contractual confrontation and that the long list of prevarications suffered in recent years be put to an end. And while there are brilliant declarations of consent from the Minister of Health and the regional authorities, on the sidelines we point out, the note concludes, that the two major central issues for citizens such as the Lea and tickets are postponed to a future date, with all due respect of the right to health and the pockets of citizens.

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